Bazaar will require Python 2.6

Martin Geisler mg at aragost.com
Wed May 11 04:38:33 CDT 2011


Hi guys,

We talked a bit about moving from Python 2.4 at the Copenhagen sprint
and decided to stay put for now.

The Bazaar project has just decided to move to Python 2.6 for their next
stable release:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/71897

I think an important point was that none of the enterprise distributions
stuck on Python 2.4 ship Bazaar packages. So if people have installed
Bazaar from a package, then they'll have gotten it from a third-party,
and so they can also install a third-party Python 2.6 package.

That argument leaves those who have installed Bazaar from source behind.
This is the main reason for us to keep supporting Python 2.4: letting
people install Mercurial from source on their servers.

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